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Finance News

India's central bank raises its main interest rate to 5.5%, its first rise since February 2023, as oil above $100 pushes up prices →

The Reserve Bank of India raised rates and said cuts are off the table for now. In the US, the trade gap reached its widest since March 2025 even with tariffs, and shares closed at a record.

Food & Farming

The EU wants limits on Ukraine's farm sales and farm subsidies to stay after Ukraine joins. Ukraine's farm minister says it cannot agree →

The European Commission set out its plan for a bigger EU on Tuesday. It would limit the farm money and the EU market that Ukraine's most sensitive farm products could get, even after Ukraine becomes a member. Ukraine says it can accept limits for a time, but not with no end date.

Climate & Energy

Australia's High Court rules the Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion invalid, 3-2, because planners never weighed how to cut emissions from its coal burned overseas →

The first climate case decided by Australia's top court cancels a coal mine's approval and puts the state's biggest coal project at risk, while Google pays to squeeze more power from old US reactors and diesel hits a record in Britain.

Personal Money

Ireland's budget raises the income at which the higher tax rate starts to 46,500 euros, cuts heating fuel tax and lifts childcare help by up to 2,220 euros a child →

Ireland's government spent a surplus on tax cuts for most workers, cheaper heating fuel and childcare. Britain's chancellor, with no surplus, is weighing help aimed only at poorer homes, and car loans, rates and diesel kept squeezing households elsewhere.

Space

Francis Halzen wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube, a cubic kilometre of South Pole ice that catches ghost particles from distant galaxies →

Halzen, 82, proposed turning Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector in 1988, and the prize lands while a US budget plan would halve IceCube's money. NASA is moving 7,500 contract jobs inside the agency, Crew-12 leaves the space station, 21 countries sign Turkey's space peace pledge, and a buried volcano shows the Moon once had a magnetic field.

Gaming

Skydance now owns Warner Bros.' game studios, the makers of Hogwarts Legacy and Mortal Kombat. The deal's written promises cover films, not games →

Paramount finished buying Warner Bros. Discovery and renamed itself Skydance. It owns Warner's game studios, plans $6bn of yearly savings, carries about $80bn of debt and put Activision's old boss on its board.

Biotech & Longevity

Adding Genmab and AbbVie's Epkinly to chemotherapy cut the chance of lymphoma growing or death by 51% in 900 newly diagnosed patients →

In a final-stage trial in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the most common lymphoma, Epkinly plus standard chemotherapy beat chemotherapy alone by more than investors expected. The full data are not yet published, and Genmab's shares rose about 8% in Europe.

Cybersecurity

Hackers sent an 'ASOS HACKED' threat to shoppers' phones through the retailer's own app. ASOS says names and contact details may have been taken →

ASOS, a big British online clothes shop, says outsiders got into the services it uses to message customers and sent a threat meant for its staff. It says card details and passwords were not taken. Its shares closed almost 10% down.

Mind & Body

Flu is rising about a month early in the US West, with a changed strain, and experts disagree on whether the season is unusual →

Flu tests and emergency visits have climbed since early September in California, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska, and Seattle doctors see a mutated strain. Others call it a normal start, and the US disease agency has said little.

World News

Germany arrests a former head of its foreign spy agency, accused of buying 2,000 secret files from his old aide →

August Hanning ran the BND, Germany's foreign intelligence service, until 2005. Prosecutors say his former chief of staff sold him secret files for years, and that he used them in paid work, including for two foreign spy services.

Information Technology

DeepSeek, China's best-known AI lab, is close to raising $12bn to $15bn from Tencent, CATL and state funds before a share sale planned for 2027 →

DeepSeek is near a second funding round of 80 to 100 billion yuan, double what it first asked for, with most of the money going on computers. Its rival Moonshot AI is heading for a Hong Kong share sale, OpenAI said sorry to Australia's parliament, and Google is moving free Gemini users onto its cheapest model on Friday.

Sports

EuroLeague's club owners turn down the NBA's offer and vote to make their own places in the league permanent →

The 13 clubs that own Europe's top basketball league met near Lake Como on Tuesday. They said no to working with the NBA, and agreed that their ten-year licences should become places that never run out.

Climate & Energy

The US Supreme Court hears Exxon and Suncor's bid to end Boulder's climate damages case, and two dozen like it →

Two oil companies asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to stop a Colorado city and county from making them share the cost of fires and floods. Also today, Trump waives the road tax on diesel, Britain's Conservatives would scrap clean heating in new homes, and petrol-only cars fall below half of the world's new car sales.

Personal Money

BT buys TalkTalk out of administration, keeping broadband running for its 1.5 million homes; a competition review must report by 19 October →

TalkTalk ran out of money, so BT, the UK's biggest broadband provider, bought it over a weekend. Customers keep their prices and contracts for now, rivals call it a stitch-up, and the UK government will make the final call after a competition report due on 19 October.

Food & Farming

Russian drones sink a Turkish-owned ship carrying Ukrainian corn in Romania's part of the Black Sea, and two crew die →

The Royad Mammadov caught fire and sank 30 nautical miles off Romania on Monday. Ukraine blames two Russian drones, Romania has not named a cause, and 11 crew were rescued. Elsewhere, Trump lets trucks run on untaxed farm diesel, and bird flu returns to Britain.

Space

Satellite makers are running short of parts as AI data centres buy the same equipment in far bigger orders →

Companies plan tens of thousands of new satellites, but valves, transformers and solar-cell metals are scarce. AI data centres order the same electrical parts by the thousand, so suppliers fill those orders first and some satellite plans may never be built.

Finance News

The euro falls to its lowest in 17 months as worry about France's debts spreads and Spain calls an early election for 29 November →

The euro sank to $1.1161 on Monday as lenders charged France more to borrow before its 2027 election. Spain's prime minister then called an early vote, and borrowing rates rose in Italy and Greece too.

Gaming

Ninja Theory starts letting staff go after two deals to sell it fell through →

Staff at Ninja Theory, the British studio behind Hellblade, say their jobs are at risk or gone, two weeks after Xbox gave up trying to sell it. Supermassive let more than 70 people go the same day.

Biotech & Longevity

Vaxcyte's vaccine against 31 strains of a pneumonia germ matched Pfizer's and Merck's shots in 3,500 adults →

In its first final-stage trial, VAX-31 gave antibody responses at least as strong as the two shots on sale on 28 strains and stronger on its three extra ones. It trailed Merck's shot on two strains under a stricter test, and Vaxcyte's shares rose about 50%.

Cybersecurity

Attackers used a Danish company's lawful access to Denmark's population register to take the names, addresses and ID numbers of 8.8 million people →

Denmark says the names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people were taken from its national register in September, through a company allowed to search it. The register also holds people who died or moved away. Police are investigating, and nobody has been named.

Sports

Alex Ovechkin says his 22nd NHL season will be his last, on a one-year deal that puts more than half his pay in a bonus →

The ice hockey league's all-time top goalscorer, 41, told his Washington Capitals teammates on Monday. His $4.25m wage plus a $4.75m bonus helped the club afford two new forwards.

World News

Yemen's government retakes towns on the Bab el-Mandeb strait as Pakistan and Turkey agree to send forces to Saudi Arabia →

Backed by 100 Saudi-led jets, Yemen's government pushed the Houthis back along the Red Sea coast and says Mocha has fallen, which the Houthis deny. The Houthis fired at Riyadh's airport, and Saudi Arabia's two pact partners agreed to deploy forces in the kingdom.

Information Technology

AI companies answered New York City's council under oath, and none could put a number on the risk of a catastrophe. OpenAI faces Australia's parliament on Tuesday. →

Four AI companies took sworn questions in New York on Monday, Wikimedia said OpenAI's agents had been on its sites, and OpenAI now faces Australian lawmakers over an agent that got into Medicare data.

Mind & Body

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the medicine Nobel for a way to switch chosen brain cells on and off with light, using a protein from a green alga →

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewards optogenetics, a tool that lets scientists turn chosen nerve cells on or off and see what each one does.

Personal Money

Glasgow's council threatens to sack and rehire 23,000 staff to bring in equal-pay grades that cut wages for about one in nine →

Glasgow City Council is replacing pay grades the courts found unfair to women. The new grades raise pay for 63% of staff and cut it for 11%, some by 11,500 pounds a year, and the council has threatened to sack and rehire everyone to force them in.

Climate & Energy

Satellites find huge methane leaks at Turkey's city dumps, a month before it hosts the UN climate summit →

Turkey has asked every country to cut methane before next month's COP31, while UCLA researchers using satellite data find its own dumps leaking some of the largest amounts anywhere; its co-host Australia keeps expanding coal as the pre-summit talks open in Fiji.

Space

Blue Origin shows a 20-metre solar mast for a Moon base, and a Munich team designs a reactor for the two-week lunar night →

A base at the Moon's south pole needs power through nights that last about 14 days. Blue Origin showed a tall solar mast, and German researchers posted a small reactor design that also makes the heat needed to pull oxygen out of moon dust. Neither has flown.

Food & Farming

Britain has no national food store, and 150 experts tell Andy Burnham to treat food as national security →

More than 150 experts say Britain has no plan to feed people in a crisis, while 15 US states sue Corteva over its seed spin-off, France's corn harvest halves and nobody in England checks how farmed fish are killed.

Cybersecurity

Citrix rushes out a fix for a new NetScaler flaw. Attackers used it on boxes their owners had updated only days before. →

A new flaw in Citrix's NetScaler sign-in boxes was attacked before any fix existed, hitting boxes just updated against two earlier flaws. Citrix says it only crashes the box; one researcher says his updated test box ran a harmful program. US agencies have until 7 October.

Biotech & Longevity

Australia's CSL pays $355 million up front to share an experimental antibody for rare kidney and liver diseases, tried so far in 26 kidney patients →

CSL will take 55% of the profits from lixudebart, a Swiss antibody aimed at the scarring signal in damaged organs; its best evidence is an early look at 26 patients, reported by the two companies.

Gaming

Garry Newman says s&box's launch failed, and Facepunch will drop its no-neck character →

Facepunch's founder admits its game-making platform had a bad first five months, and says 20 good games are lost among 500 tech demos and clickers.

Finance News

Saudi Arabia cuts its November oil price for Asia to a six-year low, against forecasts of a rise, as Gulf exports recover →

Saudi Aramco will sell its main crude to Asian buyers at $5 a barrel below the Gulf yardstick, the widest gap since 2020, to cover part of their record shipping costs. It raised its price for Europe by $3.

Mind & Body

Tau threads from Alzheimer's brains turned a mouse's own tau into the same shape, the way prions spread →

Scientists in Cambridge injected tau threads from patients' brains into ordinary mice, and the mice's own tau folded into the patients' shape, which backs the idea that the disease spreads by copying.

Sports

Formula One's own engine software stalls cars in the rain before the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, and Verstappen wins his first race of 2026 →

A bug in the software every Formula One car must run left cars crawling on the formation laps at Sepang, and the start was delayed by an hour and a half. Verstappen then won, Russell's engine failed, and Antonelli now leads by 84 points.

World News

Flavio Bolsonaro beats Lula in Brazil's first round, and the two meet again in a runoff on 25 October →

The jailed former president's son won 47% to Lula's 45.1% and the right won most of Brazil's Senate seats, while Yemen's government launched a war on the Houthis, the US pulled its bombers out of Britain and a banned Dodik still won in Bosnia.

Information Technology

Trump puts his intelligence chief in charge of a new 'Super Intelligence Force'. It has no budget and no legal powers. →

Jay Clayton will chair the group, and the head of the FTC, which is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic, is one of its leaders. Its first job is a report on AI within 120 days.